Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow

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Released

9/10/2014

Will Kemp, inspiring drawing teacher and founder of the Will Kemp Art School, created this course to teach students of all ages how to add depth and richness to their drawings, with light and shadow. Explore how great artists of the past, like Caravaggio and da Vinci, used light and shadow to make their work more realistic, to draw focus, and to paint a mood. Learn about chiaroscuro, the classic technique for achieving bold contrasts, and find out how to make your drawings more balanced, with shadow mapping and compositional patterns. Will provides a list of materials you will need to get started, as well as tutorials on using tonal paper, charcoal, and chalk to their best advantage.

Topics include:

Identifying the light sources

Understanding the history of light and shadow in art

Working with different lighting angles

Working with line and tone shadow patterns

Creating form with pencils, chalk, and charcoal

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 52m

Duration

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- Hi, I'm Will Kempand welcome to The Foundations of Drawing Light and Shadow.On this course we're going to learnhow to create the illusion of formand how artists have used it in the past.By understanding the principles of lightyou'll be able to draw your shadows more accuratelyand really be able to creategreat realistic sense to your drawings.Learning how to light a subject to createstrong dramatic shadows or soft diffused moodsand achieve a good balance of composition in your workby learning about shadow mapping and compositional patterns.

We'll be discovering new techniquesusing tonal paper, charcoal and chalk.So lets get startedon the foundations of drawing light and shadow.